For Syrian refugees living in Jordan life is a daily struggle. Humanitarian assistance makes their lives a little easier, but life is a constant mix of fear, anxiety and hope for a better future. …
… Humanitarian workers need access to do their jobs, but they also need protection and …
Over the past 55 years, the ICRC has worked to alleviate the suffering of people affected by conflict in Israel and the Occupied Territories (ILOT). Here's an overview of what we did in the first …
… abandoned them and she had to work three jobs when the children were small. "The salary …
Digital Technologies and Humanitarian Action in Armed Conflict On 18 March 2021, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) convened a webinar discussion with experts about "Digital …
… workers are not allowed to do their jobs. Aid is not a political football and must …
The Rwandan genocide separated Raymond Ngendahimana from his family in 1994 when he was four. He spent 22 years not knowing whether he would see them again. But a new life began for Raymond on Friday …
Two Eritrean teenagers, their young lives in ruins, have been reunited with their mother in France following efforts by the ICRC in cooperation with the Ethiopian Red Cross Society, the French Red …
“When you do what you love, success follows. Our success comes from staying positive and determined. Instead of focusing on challenges, we look ahead,” said Alina Voskanyan, whose son went missing …
… breadwinner. "Sometimes I took up temporary jobs like cleaning to make sure there was …
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Created in 1863, the ICRC library, alongside the ICRC archives, provides an indispensable documentary reference on the organization itself and international humanitarian law.
International humanitarian law is based on a number of treaties, in particular the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols, and a series of other instruments.
Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.
